{"id":4350,"date":"2025-03-10T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:42:46","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-welcomes-pupils-to-parliament-from-st-marys-church-of-england-school-in-burnham-on-crouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4350","title":{"rendered":"St Mary&#8217;s CofE School visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale was delighted to welcome the Year 6 pupils of St Mary\u2019s Church of England School, Burnham on Crouch, to Westminster on 10th March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having organised for them to tour Parliament, Sir John enjoyed answering their questions and was most impressed by the wide range of issues that they raised. These ranged from house-building in Burnham and the state of the roads, through to why Sir John became a MP and what football team he supported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John said after their visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is always a great pleasure to help arrange for local schools to visit and I would encourage them to get in touch if they would like to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured below with the visiting pupils:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/thumbnail_St-Marys-School-Burnham-2-10-March-2025-1024x611.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/thumbnail_St-Marys-School-Burnham-2-10-March-2025-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/thumbnail_St-Marys-School-Burnham-2-10-March-2025-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/thumbnail_St-Marys-School-Burnham-2-10-March-2025-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/thumbnail_St-Marys-School-Burnham-2-10-March-2025-1536x916.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/thumbnail_St-Marys-School-Burnham-2-10-March-2025.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcomed pupils from St Mary\u2019s Church of England School, Burnham-on-Crouch, to Westminster, discussing local and national issues and encouraging schools to arrange educational visits to Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}